(derogatory) A deplorable, pitiful person.
Used in a Sentence
schmuck
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for schmuck.
Editorial note
Some poor schmuck has to pour pennies in the top hopper, and gets nothing for his pains.
Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
(derogatory) A deplorable, pitiful person.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of schmuck gathered in one view.
(slang, intransitive, rare) To behave like a schmuck.
(slang, transitive, rare) To mash or smoosh.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for schmuck.
noun
(derogatory) A deplorable, pitiful person.
verb
(slang, intransitive, rare) To behave like a schmuck.
verb
(slang, transitive, rare) To mash or smoosh.
noun
(derogatory) A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because they are stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
Example sentences
Some poor schmuck has to pour pennies in the top hopper, and gets nothing for his pains.
Don't be the schmuck who chooses to die on some godforsaken hill to make a point about software quality.
He stayed with her for years, miserable, because he didn't want to be that schmuck.
If you were a schmuck and agreed to a bad deal, you just have to suck it up and learn from it.
There's a vast gulf between a random schmuck with some aerial imaging and a global, totalitarian, surveillance state with nearly omniscient powers.
The customer's alternative is to hire someone (muy expensive), or to find some other schmuck to do the job on the cheap.
Please let me play a random schmuck that is not going to defeat all the demons of Hell and save the world all by himself.
Any Schmuck has no authority to enforce laws.
$1,000 matters a lot less to me than $100 does to an average schmuck who's struggling to pay his bills.
Billy was just a regular ol' schmuck in Anytown, USA who wouldn't read anything technical unless there was a human element in the story that he could relate to.
But I can't say that I've loved or even vaguely enjoyed all the jobs I've had, to do so would have made me a schmuck.
It's just some schmuck (me) programming.
Quote examples
When you claim the rich pay 84% of taxes, the implication is that their "stuff taken out of my paycheck" contribution is five times that of the average schmuck, and that's not the case.
Let's see, getting back to day to day life, Jewish culture has also had a fairly large impact; from Yiddish, we get words like "schmuck", "chutzpa" and "klutz".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use schmuck in a sentence?
Some poor schmuck has to pour pennies in the top hopper, and gets nothing for his pains.
What does schmuck mean?
(derogatory) A deplorable, pitiful person.
What part of speech is schmuck?
schmuck is commonly used as noun, verb.